adding symbols

Question

Level 1

15 points

adding symbols

how do I add a vertical line "symbol" in my text (it looks like the "I" to the left).

I'm searching on symbols and text and I seem not to find what I am looking for. In word this was Insert > Symbol. Thanks a ton.

Mac OS X (10.6.3), Mac Pro, MacBook Pro

Posted on Dec 6, 2010 12:20 PM

Reply

Answer 1

fruhulda

Level 6

15,161 points

Dec 6, 2010 12:29 PM in response to Hotwheels22

Use Option + 7 Swedish keyboard
Shift + \ on US extended keyboard

Which one do you use?

Reply

Answer 2

Hotwheels22 Author

Level 1

15 points

Dec 8, 2010 8:33 PM in response to fruhulda

jesus (spanish pronunciation). I've always done this in word by inserting a symbol.

can I please ask you if there is in fact a way to insert other symbols and if there is a way to do various grammatical symbols?

Thanks.

Reply

Answer 3

fruhulda

Level 6

15,161 points

Dec 8, 2010 10:00 PM in response to Hotwheels22

Some symbols for writing words, you can see in the Key board palette. In the system Preferences you can go Keyboard > keyboard > check show Keyboard and ... in the menubar. You'll get an icon looking like a flag. Click on it and choose Keyboard. Now you have the keyboard so if you press different keys like shift etc you will see which other to press to get a certain letter or symbol. For other symbols go Edit > Special characters

Reply

Answer 4

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,807 points

Dec 9, 2010 6:05 AM in response to Hotwheels22

Hotwheels22 wrote:
jesus (spanish pronunciation). I've always done this in word by inserting a symbol.

can I please ask you if there is in fact a way to insert other symbols and if there is a way to do various grammatical symbols?

Pages is Unicode aware so we may insert every character (or glyph) which is defined in the font used.

From my point of view the more efficient tool delivered by Apple to insert these characters is the Character Palette.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 9 décembre 2010 15:05:11

Reply